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Marshall, Ryan, and I and we chatted about the upcoming flurry of awards. We mostly think it could be a clean sweep by Call Me By Your Name, but we're not sure in terms of the always surprising National Board of Review, or the Los Angeles…

Now that Tom O'Neil has proclaimed he believes Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is our Best Picture winner, it's a good time to check in with what films or actors are getting the strongest buzz right now not for just an Oscar…

I wasn't going to post this because it seems to really invite backlash, but everyone else is doing it so I might as well. I'm sure there will be negative reviews eventually as the numbers increase, but for now, Lady Bird just topped Toy…

Call Me By Your Name did some fantastic numbers over the weekend, with a 100K plus average per theater, putting it alongside La La Land's massive opening take and setting it up to become a $100 million baby. Darkest Hour ran in just 4…

The independent film world is flush with love for Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird. While women have usually had a harder time finding fame behind the camera — never a problem for their male counterparts — Gerwig has now become justly celebrated.…

There's an air of greatness to Kenneth Branagh, certainly for me encountering him as a fellow Brit. His body of work is extraordinary both behind the camera and in front of the camera. As President of RADA (Royal Academy of Drama and Arts)…

Best Picture this year is, so far, a mystery. The combination of this being a crazy year overall and being after the year where the frontrunner out of Telluride was upended by a surprise in the final act (like, literally, there has never…

Kumail is wondering where the beds go when there are press junkets and looking around to see where that king-sized bed vanishes away to as he sits down on the plush cream sofa. We are in a Beverly Hills Hotel and Kumail Nanjiani and Emily…

The Spirit Awards have given their Best Picture prize to the film that ultimately won Best Picture at the Oscars in five out of the past six years. The notable exceptions have been when the Oscars went more general audience than "indie."…

The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Feinberg has posted his latest Feinberg Forecast, folding in Steven Spielberg's eagerly anticipated film The Post. While bloggers and critics are barred from "social media sentiment" and "reviews," no one said…

Rob Watson, while making a note about how Lucas Hedges is in both films, noticed this: “Three Billboards and Lady Bird are the only movies to crack the box office top 10 this year while playing at fewer than 100 theaters.” Let’s call…

This week, we spent a short time talking about the Spirit Award nominations, which announce tomorrow. We're probably going to be seeing the usual suspects. The Spirits nominating committee is much bigger than with the Gotham Awards; whereas…

After a tightly embargoed screening of Steven Spielberg's The Post last night, Gold Derby's Tom O'Neil said that he could not remember a year where there were so many female-driven films in the Best Picture race. While we still are looking…

Spreading the love around with the NAACP Image Awards MOTION PICTURE Outstanding Motion Picture “Detroit” (Annapurna Pictures) “Get Out” (Universal Pictures) “Girls Trip” (Universal Pictures) “Marshall” (Open Road Films) “Roman…

Watch any Luca Guadagnino movie and you're swept up in the exquisite beauty of the surroundings as well as the lush story he's telling. Call Me by Your Name is so rich you can almost smell the warm and luxurious Italian summer as Timothee…

Sometimes the world of film critics and Oscar pundits inadvertently sabotage a movie that really could be considered a Best Picture contender. I remember Jeff Wells talking about it really early on but getting shut down by people who said…

The end of the November will mean the first announcement of the major critics awards. Even the Critics Choice voters will be on their way to voting. The Independent Spirit Awards will be announced November 21, which is literally days…

It's time to dispel murmurs heard in some of the conversations about Mudbound — stray reservations that some awards voters have mixed feelings about the Netflix distribution model. These misgivings may have begun back in May where a slight…

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Call Me By Your Name is one of only a few love stories anywhere near the Oscar race this year. It is as much a coming-of-age story as it is a love story. It is about a young man who meets a slightly older man and falls madly in love for the…